propel

verb

1. 推动；驱动；推进
   to move, drive or push sth forward or in a particular direction
   1. mechanically propelled vehicles
      机动车辆
   2. He succeeded in propelling the ball across the line.
      他成功地把球带过线。
2. 驱使；迫使；推搡
   to force sb to move in a particular direction or to get into a particular situation
   1. He was grabbed from behind and propelled through the door.
      有人从后面抓住他，把他推过门去。
   2. Fury propelled her into action.
      怒火驱使她行动起来。

1. VERB 推进；推
   To propel something in a particular direction means to cause it to move in that direction.
   1. The tiny rocket is attached to the spacecraft and is designed to propel it toward Mars.
      小火箭捆绑在宇宙飞船上，用于推动飞船飞向火星。
   2. -propelled combines with nouns to form adjectives which indicate how something, especially a weapon, is propelled.
      （与名词连用构成形容词）表示“…驱动的”，“由…推动的”
   3. ...rocket-propelled grenades.
      火箭推动的榴弹
   4. ...the first jet-propelled aeroplane.
      首架喷气式飞机
2. VERB 推动；激励；驱策
   If something propels you into a particular activity, it causes you to do it.
   1. It was a shooting star that propelled me into astronomy in the first place...
      最初是一颗流星促使我从事天文学。
   2. He is propelled by both guilt and the need to avenge his father.
      他受到内疚感和为父报仇之心的双重驱使。

1. The tiny rocket is attached to the spacecraft and is designed to propel it toward Mars.
   小火箭捆绑在宇宙飞船上，用于推动飞船飞向火星。
2. It was a shooting star that propelled me into astronomy in the first place
   最初是一颗流星促使我从事天文学。
3. He is propelled by both guilt and the need to avenge his father.
   他受到内疚感和为父报仇之心的双重驱使。
4. What kind of technology will propel us toward a cashless, mobile payment-driven world?
   哪种技术将推动我们进入一个无现金的、由移动支付驱动的世界？
5. They saw the first ship to use turbine to propel forward in the world.
   他们参加了世界上第一艘用涡轮机推进的轮船。
6. Federation provides the necessary management, financial, and technological assets on demand required to propel an agency farther and faster.
   联合按需提供了推动一个代理更远更快所需要的管理、财务和技术资产。
7. The same questions propel me through the country year after year.
   同样的问题也驱动着我，一年又一年地穿梭在这个国家的土地上。
8. Improving career growth opportunities, team collaboration and communication can help propel a company forward in the new year.
   增加职业发展机会，促进团队合作与沟通，可以推动公司在新的一年向前发展。
9. The party members of migrant workers have become an important new force to propel the economic and social development in Guangxi.
   农民工党员是推动广西南宁市经济和社会发展的重要新生力量。
10. We wiIl propel economic development to a new level.
    我们要推动经济发展再上新台阶。
11. Stilettos can propel one to new heights.
    高跟鞋可以将人推向新的高度。
12. And harmonize and propel these departments to do practical things for women and children.
    协调和推动政府有关部门为妇女儿童办实事。
13. That helps to define your experience and propel you in the direction of your seeking.
    这能帮助你定义自己经验，并推动你向你所寻求的方向。
14. We can accomplish humanism management through various means and propel enterprise's innovation forward.
    可以通过多种途径实现企业内的人本管理，以此推动企业创新。
15. Investors, taking their cue from rising equities and hopes of economic recovery, have helped propel the rise.
    从股市回暖和经济复苏的希望中得到信号的投资者，也帮助推动了油价上涨。
16. They prefer technology, not radical politics, to propel social change.
    他们更偏爱科技，而不是激进的政治，来促进社会变化。
17. China's booming energy demand has helped propel world oil prices.
    中国激增的能源需求帮助推高了全球油价。
18. It is our long-term central task to push forward the modernization drive and propel economic progress.
    搞好现代化建设，推动经济发展，是我们长期的中心任务。
19. From vertical dimension, the intervention of foreign powers propel the internationalization of separatism forward.
    在垂直向度上，外部势力的干涉，推动了分裂主义的国际化升级。
20. This made use of a modified rifle with a blank cartridge to propel the grenade.
    这使得一个空白磁带的修改，以推动使用步枪手榴弹。
21. Infrastructure projects that can propel economic and employment growth and continuous social development?
    基础建设项目，以推动经济和就业增长，以及持续的社会发展？
22. In Europe, the financial crisis and growing shareholder activism have helped to propel the issue up the agenda.
    在欧洲，金融危机和股东行动主义的兴起，将此事推上了议事日程。
23. America attracts talent from around the world into its universities, helping to propel innovation and spawning new businesses.
    美国吸引了全世界的优秀人才到它的大学，有助于推动革新和孵化新企业。
24. Drive or propel with the foot, as in sports such as football.
    如足球运动中用脚使推进或前进。
25. We should energetically promote IT application and use IT to propel and accelerate industrialization.
    大力推进信息化，用信息化带动工业化，加快工业化进程。
26. This is helping propel macro-prudential measures to the top of the regulatory debate, and rightly so.
    这导致宏观审慎措施被推到了监管辩论的最前沿，而且这么做没错。
27. Laughter is an energy that can propel us along the Path of Joy.
    笑是一种能源，可以推动我们沿着欢乐。
28. Development finance can fund and work to propel system building.
    开发性金融是我们以融资为载体，推进制度建设的途径。
29. We can climb it and propel.
    我们可以爬上去然后滑下来。
30. We should grasp the key links to propel the development of the ecological administrative system of travel industry forward.
    把握关键环节，推动旅游产业生态管理系统的发展。

  propel push shove thrust【导航词义：推】

  propel v. 推动，驱动

〔辨析〕指施加外力，尤指推力，使某人或某物前进。

  push v. 推，推动

〔辨析〕指用手、胳膊等使人或物移动。

  shove v. 推，推挤

〔辨析〕指用手或肩膀粗鲁地推挤或推撞。

  thrust v. 猛推，猛塞

〔辨析〕指突然或用力地朝某个方向推某人或某物。

verb

1. cause to move forward with force
   1. Steam propels this ship

   Synonym:    impel

2. give an incentive for action
   1. This moved me to sacrifice my career

   Synonym:    motivateactuatemovepromptincite